Nuebot posted:

He covers a lot of cool, occasionally obscure games but his humor is very dated 2000's 4chan IE: "ironic" racism and antisemitism. He very much stays in character for the videos, whether that means anything or not given that this kind of stuff is clearly his thing. Personally; I like the fast paced look into a game I frequently have literally never heard of before, but I don't recommend them to anyone I don't already know is okay with, or fond of, that particular brand of humor. He's given games away for free, and encouraged developers to reach out to fans specifically with sales and stuff - but he's also done weird stuff like spend sponsorship money on porn of a game's character because he felt there wasn't enough of her. So it's a land of extremes and contrasts I guess.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

There's a lot of thought behind it. The guy's clearly a nazi doing measured entryism through plausibly deniable "irony" to get loners into the pipeline. poo poo like this is textbook incremental desensitization:







There's no reason to do this other than to attract angry gamer dorks and begin laying the groundwork for the kind of stuff you'd find on 4chan. Someone who was just mindlessly drifting through the pipeline wouldn't be so precise about it. It's very similar to stonetoss in that regard, though with an added parasocial element that probably makes it more effective.

Calico Heart posted:

Hey all. Been a few months of silence for me since my Blazing Saddles video blew up, but I just finished a little something up.

Animal Crossing and Semiocapital

Yes, I was not able to just loving shut my brain up and enjoy the cute animal game, the only source of respite I have, in my quarantine hovel. Hope y'all ejoy!

Calico Heart posted:

Ugh. So I took a break from video-making for a while and remembered what I liked so much about it in the editing process. I legit love video editing and even though I had to make the massive step down from Final Cut to Filmora still had a lot of fun working on my latest.

What I didn't miss was posting an innocuous video about Animal Crossing and semiotic theory and encountering and eleting nazi comments within 24 hours. Sigh

Roland Jones posted:

To summarize:

A trans woman made a few tweets criticizing Laura Grace Jane for defending Buck Angel, noted monster.

Alice jumped into the thread to start digging up tweets about her being a landlord, then implied that she should kill herself after the woman asked what Alice thinks she should do. (Said "landlord" has one house and lives there herself, sublets rooms in said house at half the going rate and puts excess money into a maintenance fund instead of taking it for profit, hasn't charged rent at all since the COVID-19 crisis started, and has pushed to have the laws in her country (Iceland) that prevent people from sharing ownership of a single home so that she can turn her house into a co-op owned by all the residents, so as far as landlordliness goes it's pretty minor. Also even if you ignore all that the actual landlording is pretty similar to a situation DNE described in one of his own videos, and I don't think the message there was that Mrs. O'Leary should kill herself. I could be mistaken though.)

Some of the tweets Alice posted as proof of evil landlordliness involved the woman having had to throw out a tenant's friend for trying to rape her, and then banning that tenant from bringing guests into the house because he kept trying to bring his rapist friend back or something. No one was evicted as far as I know, unless you count the rapist friend since he was staying with his pal there free sometimes. Even if you stretch things to include him, I think attempted rape is a pretty fair reason for getting kicked out, so gently caress that guy.

Someone started using the official WTYP account to say Alice was in the right about all this and make jokes about being "cancelled" by the "Landlord Defense Brigade", basically directing their followers to dogpile on the situation. From their past videos I thought it was Liam who runs the account, but whoever was posting claimed that it was DNE. Whoever it was, they spent at least seven hours tweeting about this.

Alice has since spent two days doubling down on this, getting into stuff like spreading the woman's deadname, and generally being human garbage.

It's all been very bewildering, disgusting, and disappointing. I'm sure they're going to talk about it at the start of the next episode too; I wonder how they're going to try to spin it so that Alice doesn't look like a complete shithead. (Probably by just saying "landlord" a million times and ignoring everything that actually happened.)


It is an accurate characterization of the landlord bitching stuff.

Bakeneko posted:

Oh, okay. But most people still have to pay for housing one way or another unless, like, they inherit a place from their parents where the mortgage was already paid off, and in that case somebody still paid for it.

WeedlordGoku69 posted:

also, the way that said story reason is handled makes the production reason very, very obvious, because Lilo straight-up, no-bullshit abandons Stitch in favor of boys and it's just kind of offhandedly mentioned at the start of the show.

Japanese audiences loving hate "bratty" kids (Chihiro from Spirited Away is also a deeply unpopular character in Japan); on top of that, I strongly suspect that the very same unique family situation that makes Americans respect the hell out of the movie bristled hard against their cultural sensibilities, since single parents are kind of looked down upon in Japan, and in Japan you're expected to just straight up ignore and not talk about things that are looked down upon.

e: that said, Disney did the smart move here and kept that show Asia-exclusive for years, and the English dub mostly exists for markets like Singapore and the Philippines. I think it got a very very brief run on Disney XD in a late-night slot simply as timeslot filler, but they never made any serious attempt to push it here, presumably because everyone's response to the Lilo thing in America when details started emerging was "OH gently caress YOU."

Arcsquad12 posted:

The development of the Orc in popular culture is actually a topic I find really fascinating because of how you can trace their development and changes back to the Tolkien baseline. The D&D version of the Orc is... not great, but it, along with the eponymous Greenskin from Warhammer, have had more of an impact on the cultural perception of the Orc than Tolkien Orcs have ever had. D&D Orcs are still pretty much the same as they were back in the 80s, when it was less likely to make people bristle at the notion of an inherently evil or violent sentient being. Nowadays, that doesn't fly as much, which I'd argue is why the Warcraft Orc is so popular, because they balance the violent, tribal image of the Orc with other traits such as honour, compassion and kinship. Even the Warhammer Orc/Ork has more going on than just being pure evil beings. They have a batshit insane culture that is incredibly violent, but they're not sadists, and there's plenty of writing done about the Warhammer Orc that interprets their desire for war in a positive light by trying to see things from their perspective (this is why the War of the Beast books suck because making the Orks cruel for cruelty's sake doesn't fly with their appeal at all).

To go with a more contemporary example, the Orcs in Bright are a loving terrible interpretation because they're taking an already colonialist view of Orcs as mindless savages and then updating it to apply to inner city black communities and holy poo poo if that is not one of the worst looks you could have. Modern fantasy and a lot of modern pop culture in general has trouble with the idea of inherently evil life, which is why I haven't really been talking about Tolkien Orcs. Tolkien had serious issues with the idea that something could be inherently evil and not something that a person chose to be or was forced to be. The orcs in Tolkien works are awful beings who are cruel and fearful, but he had deep reservations about making them true creatures of evil, hence why they were originally elves that were ruined by Morgoth and twisted to his own ends. The orc of the 80s and 90s left their mark as evil monsters that lingers to this day (Orcs in japanese media are heavily inspired by D&D Orcs from the 80s which is why you still get the pigfaced rapist monsters in fantasy shows or the loving Goblin Slayer abomination), but that seems to be changing thanks to the stuff I mentioned above.

Nuebot posted:

All of your examples are young, or teenage, boys however. Who, in media, tend to be portrayed with a lot more rebellious gusto than girls and young women, who as many people have noted; in the bulk of mainstream anime tend to be portrayed pretty badly. In many popular anime like Bleach and Naruto, even if a female character starts strong - once they hit their main stride and at the peak of their popularity, most of them wound up becoming really passive non-entities for one reason or another. It's entirely possible that it is racism. It's also entirely possible it's sexism. It's entirely possible it's both. Personally, I'd wager on it being both.

macabresca posted:

As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo

Archer666 posted:

There is only 1 good person left on cracked and that's Seanbaby. No idea why he's on there, though.


Sup post-commie buddy

Its basically just people who never lived in a Communist country thinking the grass is greener on the other side.

macabresca posted:

It's more like if communism is ever reintroduced on such a scale it should be thoroughly examined in order to avoid the mistakes of the past. And, well, I'm obviously biased because people in my country are pretty salty when it comes to the subject. I just think those differences in perspective are very interesting.


Howdy! Also yeah, this

Max Wilco posted:

By the sequel, do you mean The Devil's Daughter? I remember seeing that on sale recently, but forgot to pick it up.

Ash Crimson posted:

the thing is, you can tell by the shape of lordkat's head that something isn't entirely right about him

Crocoswine posted:

some people have different life experiences than you do

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Schwarzwald posted:

hell yes

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Teknoman was the localized and edited version of Tekkaman Blade, which is hilariously bonkers and extremely over the top in the best sort of 90s anime way.


https://youtu.be/2l4RN1duEEE

Pants Donkey posted:

Unless their culture has shifted in the past decade, 4Chan hates anyone who cares about something, so OAG would fit that exactly. It’s like a community fueled by South Park political apathy.

Dawgstar posted:

Also doesn't Power tend to hold up her end in fights?

Kunster posted:

The NES's Hardest Mode was only cleared a few days ago. Here's a video detailing how and who did it.

Ghostlight posted:

and they suck live

Casey Finnigan posted:

I wonder how much foreign media I've seen that has extremely hackneyed political messages that I am able to just happily ignore because I don't know the context.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Ghostbusters is one pretty good movie that people have been trying to build into a franchise for almost 40 years, and it’s never worked. I like Lorenzo Music too, but it’s all forgettable junk. The new one will be too. That poor Stranger Things kid must be so confused, constantly appearing in 80s things he can’t possibly understand.

Arist posted:

Honestly, no one came out of that dumb Schindler's List looking great. The dude Schreier felt the need to publicly dunk on was a colleague inelegantly trying to compare his emotional response (not even the content) to a movie that, like it or not, has become shorthand for "good, sad thing."

Basically, never tweet.

WatermelonGun posted:

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Arcsquad12 posted:

I guess I'll still be active here. But BnR still seems cool, so I'll stick around

Neddy Seagoon posted:

That's pretty much a certainty. Streamers are the boy-bands of the modern generation.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Can we have a post apoc story or game where humanity doesn't immediately default to a raider mentality upon the collapse of civilization?

watho posted:

good thing they don’t then. i mean unless you paused the game to literally go out and commit war crimes for the US military, then i can understand feeling like the game is berating you for it. you kinda deserves it in that case tho tbh